With Sonic Unleashed info a little hard to come by (except that a demo is unlikely to be made for it this month, or even the first week of November), we look to something… else.

“Speedy Dragon” on the Super A’can. Apparently, near the end of the 16-bit era, a Taiwanese company wanted in on the success that SEGA had with the Mega Drive/Genesis. Unfortunately for them, they chose the end of the era to get their operations started. They created a similar system with a number of clone games, only to discover the hard way that the 16-bit era was over.

As a result, they had to scrap their production and this game became much harder to play. Although to the average Sonic gamer, it’s not terribly new; with a super peel out animation, collecting baseballs instead of rings, item monitors, similar death animation, a Sonic 2-esque special stage, and even a boss who resembles Eggman. But it’s still funny to see after all these years, for all of its anachronistic glory.

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Thanks to Shoemanbundy for finding this, and the wiki editors for putting up so much information.

Back in the day, Sonic was quite a force, and you could find his name on practically anything. Those days are gone now, but it’s always interesting to look at what was there.

Some of these foods can still be found, although the non-candy ones are likely inedible now.

(Pictures from Sonicgear.org)

The pasta is the longest lived item, spanning the old Sonic to the one we see today. A rather plain tomato-based sauce was on it, and it wasn’t really the best pasta, but was fine for a quick lunch. There were many different offers related to it, and it can be considered the quintessential food item; when it ended, it was pretty much over for all the Sonic food items.

The gum… the gum. It came in these weird cases and had weird card-shaped pieces of highly dusted gum. It tasted sorta good, but had not so much flavor. It came with weird cards I wish I had saved… it was interesting, for sure. These cards could be worth something today.

Want to know more about these items? Just go to Sonic Gear’s US Food page for more info; they have pretty much all of the items.

Know an item not on that page? Post it in the comments!